TECHNICAL INFORMATION

TRIVIA

This game was based on designer Steve Ritchie's real-life high-speed (146 mph) chase from the police in his 1979 Porsche 928.

During its design, it was joking referred to as 'High Cost' by some rival Williams designers, due to the production cost for this game at the time it was made.

High Speed was the first pinball to play a complete song, and also :
The first Williams pinball game to use alpha-numeric displays.
The first diverter in a pinball.
The first 'Kick-Big' (kicker and scoop) in a pinball.
The first use of Auto Percentaging (for replay scores).
The first 'Jackpot' in a pinball, during multi-ball and the first 'Jackpot' that carried over between games.

17,080 units were produced.

The 'Dispatch, this is 504' voices were done by both Steve Ritchie and Larry DeMar who recorded the voices while speaking via 2-way radios.